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Choess/Phlegmariurus saururus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Lycophytes
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Lycopodiales
Family: Lycopodiaceae
Genus: Phlegmariurus
Species:
P. saururus
Binomial name
Phlegmariurus saururus
(Lam.) B.Øllg.[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Huperzia saururus (Lam.) Trevis.
  • Plananthus saururus (Lam.) P.Beauv.
  • Urostachys saururus (Lam.) Herter

Phlegmariurus saururus is a species of clubmoss.

Description

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Taxonomy

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The species was originally described as Lycopodium saururus by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1792, in the botanical division of the Encyclopédie Méthodique. He based his description on material from Réunion in the herbarium of Philibert Commerson.[2] In 1805, Palisot de Beauvois transferred it to Plananthus, a genus which he segregated from Lycopodium, as Plananthus saururus.[3]

Conte Vittore Trevisan rejected Palisot de Beauvois's circumscription of Plananthus as artificial, and placed many of its species instead in the older segregate genus Huperzia. He transferred L. saururus there as H. saururus.[4] Wilhelm Herter considered Huperzia a nomen dubium and erected the genus Urostachys to replace it in 1922;[5] he transferred the species there as U. saururus in 1923[6]. However, the legitimacy of Huperzia was ultimately upheld, rendering Urostachys unnecessary.[7]

Benjamin Øllgaard[8]

Distribution and habitat

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P. saururus, narrowly circumscribed, is found throughout central and southern mainland Africa, ranging from Cameroon and Ethiopia southward to the Western Cape of South Africa. It is also known from Madagascar, the Comoros, Mauritius and La Réunion.[1] Material from Andean South America (Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina) and various South Atlantic and sub-Antarctic islands has been treated as a separate taxon, Huperzia insularis, by some authorities and lumped with P. saururus by others.

Notes and references

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Hassler 2023.
  2. ^ Lamarck 1792, p. 653.
  3. ^ Palisot-Beauvois 1805, p. 111.
  4. ^ Trevisan de Saint-Léon 1874, pp. 247–249.
  5. ^ Herter 1922, p. 249.
  6. ^ Herter 1923, p. 162.
  7. ^ Pichi-Sermolli 1959, p. 206.
  8. ^ Øllgaard 2012, p. 18.

Works cited

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  • Hassler, Michael (8 March 2023), "Phlegmariurus", World Ferns. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of Ferns and Lycophytes of the World, 15.1, retrieved 2023-03-19
  • Herter, W. (1922). "Itinera Herteriana III". Beihefte zum botanischen Centralblatt. 39 (2): 248–256.
  • Herter, W. (1923). "Die Urostachys-Arten der Antillen". Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. 19 (11–13): 161–170.
  • Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (1792). "Lycopode". Encyclopédie Méthodique. Vol. 3 pt. 2. Paris: Chez Panckouke.
  • Øllgaard, Benjamin (2012). "New combinations in Neotropical Lycopodiaceae". Phytotaxa. 57. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.57.1.3.
  • Palisot-Beauvois, A. M. F. J. (1805). Prodrome des cinquième et sixième familles de l'Æthéogamie, les mousses, les lycopodes. Paris: Fournier fils.
  • Pichi-Sermolli, Rodolfo E. G. (1959). "Committee for Pteridophyta". Taxon. 8 (6): 205–207. doi:10.2307/1217079. JSTOR 1217079.
  • Trevisan de Saint-Léon, Conte Vittore (1874). "Sylloge Sporophytarum Italiae". Atti della Società italiana di scienze naturali. Series 5. 17: 213–258.